looking to build my own website for a small printing company specializing in personal, business notepads - I am wondering what the best webhosting service is - I have been looking at Homestead, yahoo small business, Webstarts (I actually starting building a free site (page acutally) here but it took like 3 hours and looks very bad - I hate to see how long it would take to make a nice website - I am a small business owner/graphic designer - so I know quite a bit about photoshop, Illustrator etc, ...

I agree it ideas4`s statement above.  He said it`s either time or money.  I have found amateurs that can make decent websites that work for their purpose.  They are able to get their message across in a presentable manner.  Others however, really only want to focus on running their business, and not on learning how to build an effective site.  If you were an accountant you coudl save money by not hiring an electrician or a plumber to fix problems in your office, electing...

It can cost more to add those after the "sloppy but usable" site is built that if they designed into the site when originally crafted.    Very true and I concur with you on that.